Roy Lichtenstein is one of the best-known and accessible artists of the pop art generation of the 1960s. Taking much of his subject matter from comic strips and popular advertising, Lichtenstein produced large, rigorous and highly stylised paintings such as “Whaam!? and “Drowning Girl?. Challenged on the originality of his work, Lichtenstein maintained... more...

To commemorate the centenary of artist Sukumar Bose (1912-1986), this book attempts to take an incisive look at the artist, his works and the context of his art production in South and Southeast Asia. Boses art varied from the traditional to the decorative and ornamental, with a hint of the Oriental flavour. His work demonstrated traces of the... more...

With her work The Sculpture of the Egyptians , published in 1914, Hedwig Fechheimer (1871?1942) aroused a great deal of attention among the art-interested public; later, she published The Small Sculpture of the Egyptians . This volume reconstructs for the first time Fechheimer?s biography, illuminating the experience of a female intellectual... more...